It, too, brings to light the reality of death in The Great War, but emphasis is placed on the leadership of the army. The General was cheerful and spoke to the soldiers as if certain death did not await them at the front line. Sassoon conveyed that most of the soldiers the General spoke happily to in the previous week were now dead. The soldiers who have survived thus far are discouraged and angry at the plans of the leadership, which are inefficient. This sentiment of this poem seems appropriate as we study The Great War in 1917, because it was about this time when the first mutinies took place. Instead of the traditional view that soldiers were to defend, protect, and earn honor, they were seeing the fight as
It, too, brings to light the reality of death in The Great War, but emphasis is placed on the leadership of the army. The General was cheerful and spoke to the soldiers as if certain death did not await them at the front line. Sassoon conveyed that most of the soldiers the General spoke happily to in the previous week were now dead. The soldiers who have survived thus far are discouraged and angry at the plans of the leadership, which are inefficient. This sentiment of this poem seems appropriate as we study The Great War in 1917, because it was about this time when the first mutinies took place. Instead of the traditional view that soldiers were to defend, protect, and earn honor, they were seeing the fight as